In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation…
Major Legal Tech News As NetDocuments Acquires Worldox to Accelerate Its Growth Among Small- and Mid-Sized Firms
Two of the leading global providers of document management systems for the legal industry are coming together, as the cloud-based DMS company NetDocuments has acquired Worldox, one of the oldest DMS systems still operating, in business since 1988, and one that primarily serves small- to medium-sized law firms.
In a media briefing yesterday,…
A Special LawNext Recorded Live at ClioCon: Clio CEO Jack Newton on the Antifragile Law Firm
In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That…
CosmoLex Adds CRM for Firms to Manage and Track Prospective Clients and Automate Intake Workflows
The practice management company CosmoLex has added a new client relationship management module to its all-in-one platform with the release of CosmoLex CRM.
The new CRM module is designed to enable law firms to manage, track, and communicate with prospective clients; automate intake workflows; and provide reporting to help better analyze marketing campaigns.…
Haley Altman, Former Litera Exec, and Mark Chandler, Former Cisco CLO, Join Board of Justice Tech Company Paladin
On the heels of raising an $8 million Series A financing round in May, Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro…
ClioCon Post-Mortem: Slightly Off Its A-Game, But Still the Best Conference in Legal Tech
Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.
So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech.
Monday and Tuesday this week…
Clio’s 2022 Legal Trends Report Finds Lawyers’ Business Growing But Fees Fail to Keep Pace
At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report.
It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are…
At Kick-Off of ClioCon, Clio Unveils No-Code Websites, Text Messaging, Enhanced Payments, and Advanced Third-Party App Integration
As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements.
New products he…
On Eve of ClioCon, Thoughts On the Legal Tech Industry from CEO Jack Newton
With the Clio Cloud Conference kicking off live Monday for the first time since 2019, and with this year marking the conference’s 10th anniversary, I caught up earlier today with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton.
Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new…
Trellis Expands Its Court Analytics Platform Into Another Five States, for Total Coverage of 21 States
Trellis, a company that provides legal analytics and research for state trial court records, has expanded its coverage into another five states, bringing its total coverage to 21 states.
Trellis has now added coverage for courts in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. In each of those states but Michigan, its coverage spans all counties. Michigan covers…
I Put WordRake’s New Version 4.0 to the Test Against the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
As reported here yesterday, the legal editing software WordRake released a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language.
With this release, WordRake now has two editing modes: Brevity and Simplicity. You might consider the Brevity…
Aderant Unveils Cloud Docketing Product that Combines CompuLaw with American LegalNet
Last January, Aderant, a global provider of business management software for law firms, acquired American LegalNet (ALN), the docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company.
When it did, Aderant already had a leading rules-based calendaring product of its own, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to…
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